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SOS Life Blog

The SOS Life Blog is where we feature ways that students and schools are Stomping Out Stigma.  If you would like to highlight what you or your school is doing on our blog, please email your photos, videos and links with a completed SOS Life Blog Submission Form to your school board's TAMI Representative: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Submissions will be reviewed, and approved submissions will be posted on our website.  Submissions will not be accepted without board and TAMI Coalition approval.

Art of Self Care CoverTHE ART OF SELF-CARE 

Students from the DDSB, DCDSB and KPRDSB submitted pages to create a book of Self-Care ideas for thier peers.  Hard copies of this book were given to students at the 2019/2020 TAMI Summits.  Click the "Read More" button below to access an electronic version of this book!

Read more: The Art of Self-Care

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ALL SAINTS SOS TEAM 2018-2019

The "Stomping out Stigma" group at All Saints works year-round to raise awareness of mental health and to challenge the stigma surrounding mental illness. Our mission is to create a culture where it's OK to talk about mental health. 

Read more: All Saints SOS Team 2018-19

ALL SAINTS SOS TEAM 2016-2017

For the past 9 years, the All Saints "Stomping out Stigma" team has worked to engage our community in a conversation about mental health.  Our Mission is to raise awareness of mental health, resiliency and to stomp out the stigma surrounding mental illness

Read more: All Saints SOS Team 2016-17

IMG 4040MAKE THE CHOICE TO BE THEIR VOICE

For our March initiative, the All Saints SOS group decided to reach out to friends of people who might be struggling.  We all have mental health and need to take care of it.  Sometimes we don't have the strength to take care of ourselves, so we need our friends.  "Make the Choice to be their Voice" is the tag line for our "web of support" initiative.

Read more: Make the Choice to be their Voice

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ALL SAINTS SOS TEAM 2015-2016

For the past eight years, the All Saints "Stomping out Stigma" team has worked to engage our community in a conversation about mental health.  Our mission is to raise awareness of mental health, resiliency and to stomp out the stigma surrounding mental illness. 

Read more: All Saints SOS Team 2015-2016

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FAMOUS PEOPLE BOARDS

Students in Kevin MacDonald's grade 7/8 class at St. Leo Catholic School in Brooklin created their own Famous People posters, modeled after the TAMI Famous People Boards used in the in-class program.

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AllSaintsSOSVideoALL SAINTS STOMPING OUT STIGMA VIDEO

The All Saints Stomping Out Stigma group formed in 2008 during a conversation in a cab ride home from a Mental Health Summit at Ontario Shores put on by the TAMI Coalition. The four students and teacher who attended were so moved by the experience that they felt a responsibility to bring awareness back to their own school community. The group collected fellow students and teacher advisors to form an SOS group in their school. The primary goal of the SOS group is to create a greater awareness of mental health and to dispel the myths and misconceptions surrounding mental illness.

Read more: All Saints Stomping Out Stigma Video

Yellowknife1YELLOWKNIFE PARTNERSHIP

With full support from the Ministry of Social Services of the Northwest Territories, members and guests of the Durham TAMI Coalition has visited Yellowknife, NWT three times since 2011 in order to deliver training to support the TAMI model being integrated into the schools and community. Yellowknife participants in the training included: high school and intermediate teaching staff and students; community mental health clinicians, school board superintendents and representatives from the Ministry of Social Services, NWT.

Read more: Yellowknife Partnership